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Sentence Examples Families were still partial to idlis and dosas, and cereal for breakfast was unthinkable. Such events seemed unthinkable to most mainstream commentators a few years ago. A whole winter brooding on the events of August would be unthinkable for such a meticulous mind. By 60, you've learnt to think the unthinkable and, even better, to say the unsayable. Less than a decade ago such adjoining public events would have been unthinkable. Before the event got under way, that prospect seemed pretty much unthinkable. Thankfully Ferguson was one of them too, and the unthinkable defeat became merely an unpalatable draw. In such a situation a handshake is unthinkable and a mere waving of one hand is somehow too frivolous. In extreme cases it can also lead to suicide and, unthinkable but not unheard of, the death of a child at the hands of its own mother. Other families with other children, he says, have suffered unthinkable loss. When a team is embroiled in a relegation battle a meagre point never seems quite enough to quench the fear of the unthinkable. A couple of decades ago, such an event happening in England would have been unthinkable. No one should be naive enough to believe these possibilities are unthinkable. That any Trade Union could ever be expelled from the Party was once unthinkable. What are the frontlines of defence against such an unthinkable catastrophe? In its 18 years in power it pressed ahead with previously unthinkable policies. The idea of a nonworking wife has already become unthinkable for many middleclass men. Handicap stakes and prize money of that sort for a long-distance handicap at Musselburgh would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. What really strikes the crowd of onlookers is that this unthinkable thing has taken place and nothing happens. If doing without your charge card is unthinkable, you may want to take Stephen's advice. Show More Sentences Last Thursday, a high-profile military booster in Congress suddenly shattered the conventional wisdom that immediate withdrawal is unthinkable. The concept of heroism became unthinkable except in relation to fanatical military force. The other clubs regard individual ownership as unthinkable, the step that would create an intolerably polarised situation in Scottish football. It is used to foment fear and political disorientation as a means of pushing through policies that were previously politically unthinkable. Trudging back to his mark, he muttered unthinkable thoughts about the decision in what he fondly imagined was below his breath. Today the interwebs went all kinds of cray when Beyonce did the unthinkable and revealed a super-short new 'do. It was unthinkable that a Saxon should be tried by Frankish law, even though they both had the same king. Offering credit cards to students would have been considered an unthinkable act of profligacy on behalf of the banks a decade earlier. My concern was for the people who were on board the train, it would have been unthinkable if the train had derailed. Ireland had set about dismantling England's ambitious plans with such zeal that to fall at the final fence was unthinkable. Without a doubt, we are living in a disturbing new world, where what was once unthinkable has become reality. Who will perform the DNA fingerprinting of the child whose parents want this information in case of the unthinkable? You can believe that these atrocities changed the world and made hitherto unthinkable expedients necessary. For that to happen at an Afrikaans festival was unthinkable a few years ago. They eventually go on to have the baby, and two more children, but years later, deep in the throes of her addiction, Isa does the unthinkable. To replace the fine organ with an electronic keyboard is bad enough, but to move the altar and remove the pews is quite unthinkable. Anything other than a home win is unthinkable if United are to stand a chance of reclaiming their title. We're big enough to take the knocks when they're due, but is it so unthinkable sometimes to recognise and celebrate success? Such an organisational alliance with the populist right would be unthinkable for progressive French and Dutch campaigners. And this is an unthinkable, unspeakable tragedy that, in my opinion, came out of left field. Show More Sentences Each of the elements he names demands a communicative, rhetorically performed reciprocity that today's electronic media make almost unthinkable. It is apartheid and would be unthinkable in modern society were the segregation based on race or colour. I remember well, but to go back to the time this handy appliance wasn't part of every kitchen's equipment is practically unthinkable now. So, as Lara took guard, England were on the verge of the unthinkable, the first clean sweep of a series in the Caribbean by any visiting team. It was, for Tories, unthinkable to have a national church with sectaries outside. In these a strictly metronomic Brahms is as unthinkable as a fussy or hurried Brahms in passages which must be presented with adamantine rhythm. In the sixties, probably even in the seventies, such an argument would have been unthinkable. Oh where oh where could MoveOn dot org have gotten such outrageous and unthinkable notions! The new wave has ratcheted savagery and indiscriminate killing to unthinkable levels. Books on mysticism and the supernatural abound, in a way that would have been unthinkable even a few years ago. He says the ghoulish graveyard thefts would have been unthinkable in an earlier age. Such draconian measures would be almost unthinkable in a democratic system. In other words, it was unthinkable for a godparent to a future king to be anything other than a titled member of the aristocracy. Defying instructions would have been unthinkable during the tenure of his father or grandfather. His creed, and his actions, are unthinkable, but he is also our invention. His originality is in visualizing thought via gutsily graphic means and in rendering unthinkable violence even more extreme through hallucinatory abstraction. Relegation is unthinkable and would be tantamount to financial melt-down. As he plowed through what was then a terrifying, alluring setlist, the kids did something unthinkable. To involve them in a new set of dangers would have been unthinkable. The demise of the Chakri dynasty is unthinkable for most Thai, but they dread their crown prince. Show More Sentences This represents a level of vitriolic polarization unthinkable even four years ago. Such an unthinkable and deplorable situation would affect every aspect of potential business and the quality of life for the future generations in Swindon. The fact that rigidity in the monetary unit's purchasing power is unthinkable and unrealizable does not impair the methods of economic calculation. Before the royal family's flight, regicide was generally considered an unthinkable option which was advocated only by the most violent of extremists. The scale of destruction is unthinkable, and the horror is unspeakable. To the millions of Russians who listen to echo both on the radio and online, the idea of life without echo is unthinkable. A few short years ago, says Pierre Monie, such a scene would have been nearly unthinkable. I don't just mean in the field of higher education, where Americans give, or give back, to their places of nurture on a scale that we find unthinkable. You even went out and bought the fabric for your own Oscar dress, which would be unthinkable for an actress to do today. Once unthinkable, Washington's chatterers now talk of it incessantly. Yet think of other Scots for whom such a remedy would be unthinkable. The invasion of the Congo by these Lilliputian states would have been unthinkable under normal circumstances, with a responsible government and functioning state institutions. Indeed, war between states with contrasting political and economic systems may also be unthinkable because they have a history of friendly relations. During the Cold War, the unthinkable was nuclear Armageddon. On such openheartedness was their marriage founded that concealment or archness was unthinkable. The amoeboid form is unthinkable without them, and not only for their zoomorphic suggestiveness. Had the unthinkable happened, manager Dave Jones would probably have felt like sticking his head in one of the giant gasholders. Kennelly continues to push boundaries and achieve the unthinkable, and Billabong couldn't be more proud to support Keala in all of her ventures. It was unthinkable and intolerable that the Primatial See of England, Canterbury, should remain vacant, but who was to fill it? It would seem unthinkable that the granting of kawanatanga was other than permanent if Maori were to be subject to it. Show More Sentences McKay also did what was unthinkable at that time and married an aborigine named Tiu Chang-mia or Minnie. All-new facilities, unthinkable in the Soviet era of drab shoddiness, showcased how far Russia has come in the two decades since it turned its back on communism. This unprecedented movement of people is forecast to continue and intensify during the next few decades, mushrooming cities to sizes unthinkable only a century ago. German expressionism would be unthinkable without Freud,'' Barron, senior curator of 20th-century art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, said in an interview. Examples from Classical Literature For reasons of formal logic, too, the idea of progress in the universe is unthinkable. Illiteracy was common enough and might be overlooked, but a mixed marriage was unthinkable. It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. They are unthinkable and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. Tina and I discuss the unthinkable act of producing a mewling miniature monster,'' writes Morrissey, ever the romantic. Worn as he was, it was unthinkable that he should go far to-night. And you turn on me counselling the law, divorce, horrors unthinkable! It was a recording, scratchy, and full of unthinkable distance. Into this torrential sewer had unthinkable generations of ulsios pushed their few handsful of dirt in the excavating of their vast labyrinth. First it was a distant din and thrill of something unthinkable on the horizon of the crowd, even beyond the castle. I suggest that there is a distinction to be made between what is unthinkable and what is simply unthought. Out of her presence what I had seen was unthinkable, unbelievable. The looting went on persistently and on a scale almost unthinkable. We so rely upon the orderly operation of familiar natural laws that any seeming suspension of them is noted as a menace to our safety, a warning of unthinkable calamity. A fifth successive away defeat rendered the previously unthinkable prospect of Manchester City failing to qualify for the Champions League as suddenly very thinkable indeed. How many possible combinations there are with the five million telephones of the Bell System, or what unthinkable mileage of conversation, no one has ever dared to guess. If an egg survives it goes through all the stages of development that man has passed through during the unthinkable eons since life first moved upon the earth's face. As I gazed at it on that far-gone night it seemed to call across the unthinkable void, to lure me to it, to draw me as the lodestone attracts a particle of iron. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of unthinkable? Words that rhyme with unthinkable What is the adverb for unthinkable? What is the adjective for unthinkable? What is the noun for unthinkable? Translations for unthinkable Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words unthinkability unthink unthawed unthankfulness unthankfully unthankful unthinkably unthinking unthinkingly unthought unthoughtful unthought-of 11-letter Words Starting With u un unt unth unthi unthin unthink unthinka unthinkab unthinkabl